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I have a question on shipping coins to Bulgaria.

pitbosspitboss Posts: 8,643 ✭✭✭
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I have a customer that wants to buy 25 silver eagles from me and have me ship them to Bulgaria.

Can someone help me with this?

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  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    Don't. That'd be my advice. Much easier to not do it. You can find generic silver buyers stateside very easily.


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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excuse me, but why would you want to sell generic silver to Bulgaria?

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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    be safe my friend and i hope you can write these off as a lost if problems arise
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • pitbosspitboss Posts: 8,643 ✭✭✭
    Can you get insurance to cover the sale?
  • ManorcourtmanManorcourtman Posts: 8,175 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Can you get insurance to cover the sale? >>



    Sure give me $900.00 and I will insure for melt.image

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  • pitbosspitboss Posts: 8,643 ✭✭✭
    He is a new forum member.
  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In Bulgaria, not getting coins is YOU!
  • pitbosspitboss Posts: 8,643 ✭✭✭
    I would like to thank everyone for their opinions on this issue and will be checking with the post office and fed ex later this morning before

    making a final decision but am leaning toward not getting involved unless I can get assurance from someone that it is safe to send them.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,817 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I would like to thank everyone for their opinions on this issue and will be checking with the post office and fed ex later this morning before

    making a final decision but am leaning toward not getting involved unless I can get assurance from someone that it is safe to send them. >>



    How can they possibily assure their safety? Once it's in the hands of the Bulgarian postal authorities it's no longer under their control.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've been to Bulgaria. I would pass. MJ
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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Can you get insurance to cover the sale? >>



    Not that kind of insurance. And the fact that you asked this question means you are not heeding the advice of these boards. Have they made you a good over, perhaps over prevailing prices and want to use a credit card? We get emails like that every day! Each one asking for prices on Gold and Silver, and what credit cards we take.

    Stay away.
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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    only way i'd do this...

    no paypal/no ebay/no credit card.......period

    they send me funds...to a p.o. box....funds must fully clear

    then i'd send eagles off...maybe to embassy in care of

    absolutely eliminate charge back/refund/rejected funds as an option...it has to be a zero risk to me

    but i don't do this
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bulgaria, like Russia, is a rather corrupt country and the chances of this transactions working-out are slim. If you're sending to Sofia, you'll have a better chance of it getting delivered, but I still wouldn't do it if I were you. There are numerous ways of acquiring silver in Bulgaria that doesn't require it being shipped from US. Doesn't it make you wonder why they're placing a large order like this?

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,817 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>only way i'd do this...

    no paypal/no ebay/no credit card.......period

    they send me funds...to a p.o. box....funds must fully clear

    then i'd send eagles off...maybe to embassy in care of

    absolutely eliminate charge back/refund/rejected funds as an option...it has to be a zero risk to me

    but i don't do this >>



    Too much work for such a small transaction. I'd just pass and move on.


    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    I look at it this way:

    Do you really need to take the risks associated with this transaction in order to sell these items?
    Coin Rarities Online
  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    Believe it or not, I accidentally -- and successfully -- bought a Fugio copper from Bulgaria within the last 6 months.

    It was on eBay, a nothing special coin worth about $300. The ID was in English and I bid, never looking at the location.

    Two days later I get a battery of photographs from the seller showing me the Fort Knox-like box from every angle and asking me to be sure the box had not been opened when it arrives. Gulp.

    That was November. In February I emailed the seller and asked about how long I should wait. He said "a little longer."

    Sure enough, at the beginning of this month, it turned up. And there was even a coin inside!

    I'm not sure if I'd do the Bulgaria mail shuffle again.
    John Kraljevich Americana
    Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
  • goldengolden Posts: 9,991 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Danger ,danger Will Robinson!
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭


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    Yup

    Coin's for sale/trade.


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    800-624-1870

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,289 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • pitbosspitboss Posts: 8,643 ✭✭✭

    I have listened to all you great people and have decided to not go through with the deal.

    The post office would not guarantee me anything and fed ex would not insure precious metals.

    I have them on the BST forum so maybe someone in the US will want them.
  • TURBOTURBO Posts: 494 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I have listened to all you great people and have decided to not go through with the deal.

    The post office would not guarantee me anything and fed ex would not insure precious metals.

    I have them on the BST forum so maybe someone in the US will want them.

    MAYBE??

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